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If anyone wants to help they could try suggesting or simming different methods of holding and releasing the arms in the alternating positions . Algodoo can't cope with everything i try to simulate, and i am busy with life for a couple of weeks, which is why we are counting THX4 at present. I think ...

Whatever you do don't check on your pet cat in the Schrodinger box ..

Hey thx4 .. here what the sim predicts would happen in this situation .. see graphed out trends and the System COM black and white icon as it moves about .. n.b. the wheel has grey weights attached because otherwise WM2D treats background disks as point masses, and this gives it some extra Inertia ....

Everything I present isn't functional, doesn't work, and serves no purpose - it's purely rhetorical . Thank you When one reads paragraph after paragraph of descriptive prose one feels the rhetorical more than the recreational nature of the text. However I think the most part is not to supply the so...

Thought I might as well add .. Tarsier79 is not wrong, as far as his energy budget analysis goes .. Using known Mechanical Advantage techniques ( i.e. implements / tools n.b. which are conservative and only force multipliers and redirectors ) then there is never enough energy from either the shiftin...

Keep at it guys ( as you are doing ) until you are satisfied you have explored all the possibilities and ways forward available with this concept - that is the process of learning, and hopefully finding a path to a workaround to the common problems .. The point of doing science is to do experiments ...

Nice build Shadow !

fwiw .. my personal opinion is that the last statement about surprise that no one else had thought of it before B. is more telling than it was easy to understand and simple to build ( paraphrased ) .. It's possible that Karl was thinking of a particular subset of PM chasers when he said that, and no...

So you think it so simple that Karl didn’t even want to pay the original 4000 thalers to guarantee it. In a nut shell - yes ! Karl contracted to see the inside workings of the PM wheel so he could see how it "worked" and determine beyond a shadow of a doubt it wasn't a hoax, and then he w...

There is something wonky going on. Is wonky a northern hemisphere scientific term ;7) Here's perhaps a similar scenario dax .. you see advertised in "popular mechanics" a machine that is 100% guaranteed to kill 100% of flys, or your money back, instructions included - for only 4 monthly i...

FWEIW, I've worked with pendulums a lot and, I found a good way to reset them. About the best that can be achieved is having them drive for 90 degrees and reset in 90 degrees. But, to do that they have to reset twice as fast as the wheel is turning. That's the killer / the acceleration of it. Veloc...

OK Graham, looking forward to your ideas regarding pendulums and how they may be viewed differently in different contexts .. I do understand that you are turning over pet rocks for the illusive PM Principle - it's gotta happen in order to unearth it .. And fwiw .. I don't want to come across as crit...

If you recall Bessler spoke about some of the wheels in his book as possible runners if his special principal was used on them. Yes, probably the most "in-your-face" examples being MT 44 and MT48, and many others that get a special mention and are much more familiar to us that use forever...

It looks balanced. How can it work if it's balanced --------------Sam Hey Sam .. you could say that the rig "breathes" in and out - that is, the weights of different colours and masses are able to move about a bit - extending and contracting overall length slightly, and width - the spring...

Here's your basic design Rox .. I tidied it up a bit and simplified it so it runs well ( accuracy still 100 fps ) - note, I dumped the polygon slots structures you had made and replaced them with menu slotted joints ( from the side menu ) .. You should be able to drag over one side or another and co...